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- Simon Zebo goes over for Ireland's opening try Aviva Stadium today played host to the 32nd rugby union clash between Ireland and Australia.
Rugby World Cup Round-Up: Australia Demolish Uruguay While Ireland Continue Stunning Form. Today produced another hectic schedule of Rugby World Cup action with one of the three results crucially going Ireland's way.
Pool A: Australia 65-3 Uruguay. There was movement in Pools A, B and D today with the action kicking off between Australia and Uruguay in Villa Park. Japan offered hope to the more underrated teams of this tournament with their historic win over South Africa last weekend. But Michael Cheika's side ensured that such a humiliation would not befall their side as they terrorised Uruguay with an 11 try nightmare. Not only did Australia come away with a vital win, they also unearthed some individual accolades along the way. Man of the match Sean McMahon bagged two tries for himself while Drew Mitchell crawled over the line to become Australia's number one try scorer.
But their performance was not without flaws. Quade Cooper's navigation was substantially off-target today. The Wallaby fly-half landed a five from 11 success rate with his kicks which Cheika will be surely be fuming with when he assess this game with the team. — Newstalk Sport (@NewstalkSport) September 27, 2015. Pool B: Scotland 39-16 USA. After stuttering through the first half, Scotland managed to rediscover their form in the second half to overturn a seven point half-time deficit and bury the Americans in the second half with a succession of tries inside the opening 13 minutes.
Maybe it was the nine pre-match changes in personnel or maybe it was complacency, but one thing is for sure, the Scots will find it very difficult to overcome South Africa in the next round if they can't shake off their first half jitters. Scotland brush USA aside with rousing second half performance pic. twitter. com/n3VYCDh9n7. — Newstalk Sport (@NewstalkSport) September 27, 2015. Pool D: Ireland 44-10 Romania.
Since 1927, Australia and Ireland have competed against each other in rugby union in 32 matches, Australia having won 21, Ireland 10, with 1 draw. Their first. Australia coach Michael Cheika's knowledge of the Irish players had dominated the Everyone here got a really, really exciting game of rugby.
Joe Schmidt's side maintained their favorable start to the Rugby World Cup with a six try feast against a hapless Romanian side. Tommy Bowe was first to draw blood, but Simon Zebo was millimeters away from inheriting that honour. — Newstalk Sport (@NewstalkSport) September 27, 2015. Zebo dusted off that minor disappointment to launch himself back into the action, helping himself to two assists for the tries from Bowe and Keith Earls in the first half.
Rob Kearney and Chris Henry were the other try suppliers for Ireland.